Steve McAllister is a long-time

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sports media and communications expert. He currently is the Editor-In-Chief of The Parleh, a weekly newsletter on sports betting owned by Parleh Media Group Inc., and writes a weekly column on sports betting for The Toronto Star. McAllister is the former managing editor of sports for Yahoo Canada, and the former sports editor of Canada's national newspaper,

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. He has also been the media relations manager for the

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. McAllister covered the

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' back-to-back

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championships in

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and

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as the national baseball writer for The Canadian Press. He was inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame in June 2011, and has been the president of Sports Media Canada since May 2009. He was honoured in his hometown of Prescott, Ont., in June 2014 by being placed on the South Grenville District High School Wall of Fame. McAllister was also an official in the

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between 1981 and 1989, and refereed the first two games of the first unofficial world women's hockey championship in 1987.

References

Living people Toronto Metropolitan University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian sports journalists {{Editor-stub